On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:12:41 -0400, Paul wrote

It's got the GUI interface from hell :-/

Three common solutions I've sworn off
| start menu is too much work to make it do what I want it to do |
| task bar is already filled completely and is at two levels already |
| desktop is already fully cluttered with files and folders already |

What works for folders is to pin the File Explorer to the task bar.
What works for programs (which are files) is to pin the shortcut to the
task bar.

But my task bar is already two layers deep.